Despite Vaughan's concerns about Karl's history in the mental hospital, Linda allows him to move into her garage, which angers Linda's abusive alcoholic boyfriend, Doyle Hargraves (Dwight Yoakam). He later admits that he lied, and that his father committed suicide.įrank introduces Karl to his mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), as well as her gay friend, Vaughan Cunningham (John Ritter), the manager of the dollar store where she is employed. Frank reveals that his father was killed – hit by a train – leaving him and his mother on their own. He befriends 12-year-old Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) and shares some of the details of his past, including the killings. Thanks to the doctor in charge of his institutionalization (James Hampton), Karl lands a job at a repair shop in the small town where he was born and raised. When he discovered that his mother was a willing participant in the affair, he killed her also. I call it a kaiser blade." Karl says he thought the man was raping his mother. Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a local college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts committing the murders with a Kaiser blade, saying, "Some folks call it a sling blade. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is an intellectually disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover.
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